Sander, can you tell what you mean with '...something went horribly wron during install...' ? Any particular messages which can help analyzing this ? If you don't have any, take your most recent LVM metedata from the archive (/etc/lvconf/ ; you've got a backup, right ?), figure out disks used as PVs with "vgcfgrestore -ll ..." and run "pvcreate -ff ..." and vgcfgrestore on all of them. The archive you use shall _not_ include the recently added disk. Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 01:14:28AM +0100, Sander Alberink wrote: > Hello all, > > I write to you with a rather grave problem. I have a small LVM setup at > home, consisting of 4 partitions. These were created by the Mandrake 8.2 > installation system. After deciding to upgrade the system to Mandrake > 9.0, I found out that I had another partition lying around which was > also prepared for LVM use. I had meant for that disc to use later on in > a different scheme for my /usr partition but never got around to do it. > However, during installation I decided to add it to the LVM. The idea > was that I would extend the FS later (of course, I was not going to > involve this LVM setup in the rest of the installation, I would do all > that manually.) > > But as you probably guessed, something went horribly wrong during > install time and my LVM setup is properly hosed. I wanted to re-create > the setup, but alas: I forgot which was the disk that I added. > > The name of the LV (there was only 1) was home, the disks involved were > /dev/hda1, /dev/hda[4-6]. > > Output of pvscan: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > pvscan -- walking through all physical volumes found > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1" is > associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4" is > associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5" is > associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6" is > associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7" is > associated to an unknown VG (run vgscan) > pvscan -- total: 5 [1.97 GB] / in use: 5 [1.97 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > output of vgscan: > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created > vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume > group > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > output of pvdisplay /dev/hda1 (this partition belonged to the LV for sure) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > pvdisplay -- getting physical volume size > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 > VG Name home > PV Size 399.62 MB / NOT usable 3.62 MB [LVM: 121.00 KB] > PV# 1 > PV Status NOT available > Allocatable yes (but full) > Cur LV 1 > PE Size (KByte) 4096 > Total PE 99 > Free PE 0 > Allocated PE 99 > PV UUID NCf9U6-nqVy-zn3K-upFo-S0PB-SFqb-o2ERjs > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > If you need any further information, please let me know! > I do hope you can help me with this, since I stand to loose a lot of > personal data, of which exists no backup (of course, you guys probably > hear this all the time). > > Best regards, > > Sander Alberink > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
